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This page is for Touhou characters who debuted in Touhou Kouryuudou ~ Unconnected Marketeers.

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Mike Goutokuji

Lucky Charm of Prosperous Business

Mike Goutokuji

"I've got some nice cards! Wanna buy any?"

A maneki-neko originally from Goutoku-ji Temple in the Outside World who was cast out by her follow maneki-neko for being calico instead of pure white, and decided to make a new life for herself in the mountains. Her power is beckoning money or customers, but not both as one will drive away the other.

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• All of the Other Reindeer: She was ostracized by the other maneki-neko for being calico as opposed to pure white, who would either shun her as a cheap imitation or try to dye her hair (Presumably to be more white). This continued until she spat back that there was nothing wrong with her appearance, and got cast out by her fellow cats as a result.
• Animal Motifs: Mike's dress and hair has the same coloration as that of a calico cat's fur.
• Cat Girl: As a maneki-neko, she's depicted as having a humanoid body with cat ears and a tail and wears a skirt and shirt combo reminiscent of a calico cat's fur, combined with her multicolored hair. She also wears cat bells around her neck and on her wrists.
• Incompletely Trained: According to her bio, since she was cast out before she could really start maneki-neko training, Mike can beckon customers or attract wealth, but not both because one will drive away the other.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Mike Goutokuzi in K-S Romanization.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Kitten of Great Fortune", referencing her abilities as a maneki-neko.
• Magical Barefooter: She's constantly barefoot to represent her mystical powers of bringing good luck as a Maneki Neko.
• Maneki Neko: She's described as a maneki-neko, a cat statue that gives good luck, though unlike other maneki-neko, Mike can bring in money or customers, but not both as one will drive away the other. This is because she was cast out by the other maneki-neko before she could undertake proper training for her power. Her artwork even has her holding the classic coin and doing the classic maneki-neko beckoning pose.
• Meaningful Name: Mike is derived from "mike-neko" or literally "three-colored cat", which is the Japanese term for calico cats, and she's a calico maneki-neko (the name "Mike" is often given to calico cats in Japan). Her surname, Goutokuji, comes from the temple of the same name in Tokyo where maneki-neko are most commonly believed to have originated form.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Unlike other maneki-neko, she's ditched maneki-neko society and duties, and prefers to spend her time hanging out in the mountains.
• Rainbow Motif: All her danmaku is rainbow-colored.
• Unusual Ears: In a similar manner to Orin from Subterranean Animism, Mike possesses both human and cat ears.
• Warm-Up Boss: She's the Stage 1 boss of Unconnected Marketeers, as well as the tutorial boss of 100th Black Market.

Takane Yamashiro

Business Youkai of the Mountain's Recess

Takane Yamashiro

"These are too much for you puny little humans to handle! Begone from our mountain!"

One of the mountain kappa, or yamawaro, living in the innards of Youkai Mountain and living in a communal lifestyle, and their effective liason to the rest of Gensokyo. Her ability is manipulating forest qi.

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• Ascended Extra: Goes from another throwaway early-game boss in Unconnected Marketeers to the main antagonist of the sequel.
• Big Bad: She's the one who's responsible for the black market incident in 100th Black Market.
• Color-Coded Wizardry: Takane's power is manipulating forest qi, and she wears a green camouflage-patterned dress.
• Curtains Match the Window: She has both green hair and eyes.
• Friendly Rivalry: Her bio mentions that yamawaro and kappa have a bit of a rivalry as both are highly technologically advanced groups of youkai, but are still heavily dependent on one another, as the yamawaro need the kappa's manufacturing, while the kappa need the yamawaro's help to complete their machines.
• Green Thumb: Takane's power is manipulating forest qi, and in her boss fight her Spell Cards all involve the use of trees and leaves.
• Kappa: She's described as a yamawaro, a type of mountain youkai who are closest in nature to the water-dwelling kappa. This is also reflected in her surname "Yamashiro" which translates to "mountain castle", compared to Nitori's surname Kawashiro, meaning "river castle".
• Know When to Fold Them: In 100th Black Market, after Marisa confronts her as the ringleader behind the black market in Ability Cards, Takane decides to surrender because there's no point in trying to fight her, only for Marisa to force her to fight anyway because she doesn't feel like leaving the Rainbow Dragon Cave without one following all the battles she's done just to get there.
• The Leader: Takane serves as a leader-esque figure amongst the yamawaro because she's the most polite-speaking out of the bunch.
• True Final Boss: The real last opponent of 100th Black Market. Marisa's only able to confront her after defeating both Chimata and Nitori.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Banditry Technology".
• One Degree of Separation: Reveals in Sanae's scenario that she helped the Moriya Shrine install its cable car to Youkai Mountain's summit, implying that she may know Nitori and the other kappa seen in the series in particular, and recognizes Sanae on sight, but Sanae herself has never met her before.
• Pragmatic Villainy: In 100th Black Market Takane mentions that yamawaro in general prefer not to fight pointless battles because it's bad for business, hence why she tries surrendering to Marisa before the magician forces her to fight anyway.
• Proud Merchant Race: According to her bio, yamawaro specialize in economic research, and have even created a complicated form of currency. Her personal Ability Card, Yamawaro Shopping Technique, allows its holder to buy cards for cheaper prices. This trend continues into 100th Black Market, where she reappears as the Big Bad, with it being revealed that the black market was just yamawaro business.
• The Rival: Her bio in Unconnected Marketeers mentions that the kappa and yamawaro have a rivalry with one another, which is why in 100th Black Market, the kappa Nitori has chosen to team up with Chimata in order to disrupt the yamawaro monopoly on the Ability Cards through their black markets.
• Signature Headgear: A dark-blue cap, much like Nitori's evoking the imagery of a kappa's flat head and beak. Unlike Nitori's cap, which has an angular brim, Takane's is rounded.

Sannyo Komakusa

Highland-Dwelling Yamajorou

Sannyo Komakusa

"Get lost! You'll ruin the taste of my tobacco."

A yamajorou who lives on Youkai Mountain's high plateaus, runs a gambling den for various mountain youkai as its bookmaker, and sees the Ability Cards as the ultimate material to bet on. Her ability is controlling people's minds using the 100% Youkai Mountain tobacco smoke that comes out of her tobacco pipe.

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• A Day in the Limelight: Gets focus in Chapters 29 and 30 of Lotus Eaters, in which fellow smoker Mamizou visits her gambling den after taking an interest in her tobacco. She winds up opening a branch of her den at Geidontei to discourage humans from attempting to make the trek up the mountain and risk getting eaten, and becomes a recurring character from that point on.
• Characterization Marches On: What little dialogue she had in Unconnected Marketeers made her come off as very blunt, openly complaining about how the heroines were ruining her tobacco. Lotus Eater makes her far more cordial and sophisticated, befitting more the archetype of a tayuu in Japanese media.
• Emotion Control: She keeps the peace in her establishment by using her tobacco smoke to dampen people's emotions, though it's said that she may also use it to keep spirits high and encourage people to keep gambling.
• Flower Motifs: Her surname, Komakusa, is the Japanese name for Dicentra peregrina^note D. peregina is the only member of its genus that is found outside of North America., a flower native to mountainous environments like the plateaus she calls home, and her Spell Cards are named after flowers and have patterns shaped like the flowers in question.
• Gate Guardian: Mentions that she's guarding the entrance to the Rainbow Dragon Cave because of the dangers inside.
• Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: Is always seen with a dragon-shaped tobacco pipe, which is used to keep the youkai in her gambling den from getting too rowdy via its smoke. She initially tries warding off the heroines because she feels they'll ruin the taste of her tobacco.
• High-Class Call Girl: She isn't one, as far as we can tell, but according to her bio she got the nickname "Komakusa-Dayuu" from the fact that she dresses like a tayuu, the highest ranking oiran who rarely if ever did the same sorts of work as other oiran, who were themselves the highest class of courtesan. Yamajorou also happens to mean "mountain courtesan", and are considered a type of yamanba.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Smoking Dragon".
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Is never referred to in Lotus Eater by her first name, with characters and even her text introductory box referring to her as Komakusa-dayuu.
• Remember the New Girl?: In Sanae's scenario it's clear that both of them are familiar with each other, but this is the first time they've directly interacted because beforehand the Moriya Shrine had made a deal with the mountain youkai not to go to the portions of the mountain seen in Unconnected Marketeers.

Misumaru Tamatsukuri

Genuine Magatama-Producing Craftsman

Misumaru Tamatsukuri

"Will you leave on your own, or be carried out? Choose at once!"

A god with the power to make magatama who blocks the way further down into the Rainbow Dragon Cave, and the creator of the Hakurei Yin-Yang Orbs.

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• Big Good: She just wants for the Dragon Gems not to end in the wrong hands, that's why she wants the protagonists' help. However Reimu and Sakuya keep mistrusting her intentions until the Extra Stage.
• Hero Antagonist: She only fights the protagonists to prevent them from going deeper into the cave, which is filled with poisonous gases and is completely lacking in oxygen, and even sends them in the direction of the true instigators afterwards. The main reason she even gets involved in the first place is to prevent the Dragon spheres by being misused by the greedy, and curtail any potential environmental damage caused by Megumu and Momoyo's mining operation, leading to her discovery of the latter. During the Extra Stage, she helps out by being the final shopkeeper before the protagonist fights Momoyo.
• Full-Name Basis: Refers to everyone with their full names along with "-kun".
• Inconsistent Spelling: Misumaru Tamatukuri in K-S Romanization.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Ore from the Age of the Gods".
• Magical Barefooter: She's constantly barefoot to represent her status as a mystical god with the ability to craft magic-imbued magatama.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Misumaru can refer to a type of necklace with threaded beads, such as magatama, when written with the characters 御統.
  • Her family name Tamatsukuri means "jewel maker", and she creates magatama.
• Memory Jar: The magatama she creates have the ability to read and copy information from people, working on similar principles to the Ability Cards.
• The Needless: As a god, she doesn't need to breathe, so the anoxic Rainbow Dragon Cave is of no issue to her.
• Our Gods Are Different: A god that makes magatama by mining Dragon spheres. She's based on Ame no Akarutama, one of the amatsukami or heavenly gods who assisted in luring Amaterasu out of Amano-Iwato by crafting stone spheres, and later in the conquest of the earthly gods.
• Rainbow Motif: Wears magatama containing all seven colors of the rainbow, and her Spell Cards all use multicolored Yin-Yang Orbs.
• Telepathy: She can use her magatama to read people's minds, which she does on the protagonists to discern their intentions, and is implied to be how she got their names.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: She's one of the few who knows how to work Dragon Gems, which are containers of ancient magic that came before humanity itself. Not only that but she states that she was the original creator of Reimu's Yin-Yang Orb, which are considered one of the most powerful objects in Reimu's arsenal. She mainly crafts magatama.

Tsukasa Kudamaki

Wicked White Fox Who Whispers in Ears

Tsukasa Kudamaki

"I knew we couldn't keep something like this up for long...!"

A pipe fox who works for her own purposes, who has the power to bring chaos by slipping into the weak places in one's soul.

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• Asian Fox Spirit: More specifically, she's a pipe fox (kuda-gitsune), a type of fox spirit that's small enough to fit into objects like pipes. In her case, she can slip into the weak places in someone's soul.
• Charm Person: Her ability functions essentially this, with a dash of More than Mind Control. Even when people have good reason to be wary of her, she always seems to know just the right button to push to get them to do exactly what she wants.
• Cunning Like a Fox: She's a pipe fox and she's shown to be very crafty, playing all sides in the game against one another for her own purposes while playing the part of the loyal second.
• Deal with the Devil: Her profile mentions that those who listen to her advice will gain financial benefits, but a terrible price will be enacted in return.
• Dragon with an Agenda: Is known as Iizunamaru's right hand woman, but the only side she's on is her own.
• Faux Affably Evil: While her earlier appearances show her as polite and affable, when fought as the midboss in the Extra Stage, Tsukasa drops all appearances and flat out tells the heroine to die.
• Leitmotif: Her theme in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost is an arrangement of "The Long-Awaited Oumagatoki" from her debut game.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Sets up the fight between the protagonist and Momoyo by identifying the former as a thief.
• Light Is Not Good: Wears all white clothing and is one of the most conniving and evil characters in the series. Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost even references this in her title Black-Hearted White Fox.
• Little Bit Beastly: She has fox ears and a tail.
• Manipulative Bitch: She manipulates all sides to fight each other for her own amusement.
• Neat Freak: Implied Trope. It's stated in 100th Black Market that she hates getting her clothes dirty.
• Playing Both Sides: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost has her playing both the Kiketsu and Keiga families against each other, in addition to the Gensokyo residents fighting all parties.
• Pre-Final Boss: Is the Stage 6 midboss, and also the Extra stage midboss.
• Promoted to Playable: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost has her as a playable character.
• Recurring Boss: Is fought as the midboss for Stages 5, 6, and the Extra stage, making her the second most fought character in a single game up to this point, only beaten by Orin.
• Star Power: Her Stellar Fox "Dance of Heavenly Foxes and Dragon Stars" Spell Card uses star-shaped danmaku and is a reference to the Seven Mansions of the Azure Dragon, seven constellations associated with Seiryu.
• The Thing That Would Not Leave: During Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, she shacks up in the Moriya Shrine without their permission and acts like she owns the place, even though Sanae doesn't approve.
• War for Fun and Profit: Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost has her stoking tensions on all sides in order to make money off of the impending war. Her intro states argues this is typical of merchants in wartime.
• Wicked Weasel: Pipe foxes are often thought to be based on weasels, and the term iizuna (referenced by her boss) can refer to both.

Megumu Iizunamaru

Chief of the Crow Tengu

Megumu Iizunamaru

"I have no interest in who you might be, human, but this isn't a place that humans ought to set foot in so easily."

The daitengu leader of Gensokyo's crow tengu, and one of the incident's masterminds, having the Ability Cards be sold to benefit the tengu. She has the ability to manipulate the starry sky.

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• Alternate Character Reading: Her name, Megumu, is a Nanori reading for 龍 (Otherwise Ryuu/Tatsu).
  • Notably, as a Great Tengu, she is of a higher rank than Aya, who's a regular crow Tengu.
  • Even her ability to manipulate the Starry sky is "above" Aya's, since Aya merely manipulates the wind, but the stars are far higher in the sky than the air.
• Bad Boss: According to ZUN, she beats her tengu subordinates with her tripod, and in Lotus Eaters she indirectly threatens Aya with exile or worse in order to prevent her from reporting the truth on tengu relation with the red snow.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Shares the status of main villainess with Chimata, having worked together to spread the Ability Cards around Gensokyo in exchange for profit and faith respectively.
• Bait-and-Switch Boss: When Tsukasa prepares to fight the protagonist for real in Stage 5 like in most games up to this point, Megumu tells her to stand down as she chooses to fight instead.
• Beam Spam: Her second and fourth spell cards, "Stellar Wind 'Wild Dance of Dazzling Iridescence'" and "Rainbow Illumination 'Clear and Tranquil Wind and Moon'", unleash ludicrous amounts of rainbow-colored laser beams.
• Blatant Lies: In Lotus Eaters she tells Chimata that the tengu are noble beings who merely want what's best for Gensokyo, when in reality the tengu are deeply xenophobic and only seek control over lesser beings.
• Cosmic Motifs: Most of her Spell Cards deal with individual stars or constellations.
• Evil Laugh: She laughs as she tells Chimata about how any crow tengu would be a fool to go against her word and tell the truth about the red snow incident.
• Graceful Loser: Upon losing she tells the protagonists about Chimata without struggle.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Helping out Chimata had the unfortunate (for her) side effect of the god getting powerful enough to pose a threat to tengu society.
• Improbable Weapon User: According to one of ZUN's livestreams, Megumu uses the tripod she carries as a blunt weapon.
  ZUN: "[The tripod] is a blunt instrument. She beats you with it."
  ZUN: "No camera, just a tripod."
  ZUN: "The great tengu are superior to the tengu, so she beats [the tengu] with the tripod."
• Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: Betrays Chimata to the protagonists after losing, which Chimata says she always expected her to do. Their profiles expand their rift into being the result of ideological differences. Megumu sees markets as a free for all, whereas Chimata sees them as a place where rules still need to be followed.
• The Leader: She's the leader of Gensokyo's crow tengu, making her by extension Aya and Hatate's boss, and the highest ranked tengu seen onscreen thus far.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Stars Falling on Tenma's Mountain".
• Monster Lord: Leader of Gensokyo's crow tengu, and as a Great Tengu she can command other mountain youkai as well, if not as efficiently.
• Non-Indicative Name: Her name, 龍 , means Dragon. She's a Daitengu instead.
• Our Gods Are Different: Based on Saburou Tengu - aka Iizuna-gongen, Shinto-Buddhist god of Mt. Iizuna, who is often depicted as a tengu accompanied by a white fox. His cult is also associated with Black Magic that involves controlling pipe foxes (known locally as iizuna).
• Pointy Ears: While not as obvious due to her long hair, she has the pointed ears common to tengu.
• Purple Is Powerful: She wears purple shoes and is a high-ranking daitengu.
• Rainbow Motif: Her "Stellar Wind 'Wild Dance of Dazzling Iridescence'" and "Rainbow Illumination 'Clear and Tranquil Wind and Moon'" Spell Cards use multicolored lasers.
• Rank Scales with Asskicking: Leader of the crow tengu, and the Stage 5 Boss.
• Signature Headgear: She's a tengu who wears a blue tokin, to contrast Aya's red one.
• Star Power: Apart from her Spell Cards dealing with stars and firing star-shaped danmaku, she herself has the ability to manipulate the starry sky.
• Tengu: She's a tengu, and like Aya she wears the typical tokin hat and high-heeled geta sandals commonly associated with this youkai. She's specifically a daitengu, which means she ranks above Aya, Hatate, and Momiji.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Her actions in causing the incident are simply to help further the aims of tengu society.
• Worthy Opponent: Respects brave and powerful people.

Chimata Tenkyuu

God of the Unowned

Chimata Tenkyuu

"Let us return all things to nothing! By God's invisible hand!"

A goddess of the marketplace who has power over people losing possession of things. Following a loss of power due to transactions being done more and more outside of physical marketplaces, she teams up with Megumu in order to regain lost power through the selling of Ability Cards.

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• The Almighty Dollar: As an ichigami or goddess of the marketplace, she deals with wealth and business transactions. In particular, she deals with the concept of ownership through buying and selling in physical "special event" marketplaces, hence why her marketplace only appears under special conditions, most prominently a lunar rainbow. Her pose is also meant to evoke the "$" dollar sign, and she references Adam Smith's concept of the "Invisible Hand of God" aspect of capitalism before fighting the heroine.
• Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: In keeping with her being associated with the lunar rainbow, her clothing is multicolored and she has dark blue hair that reflects the sky by having lighter patches that resemble thin clouds.
• Anthropomorphic Personification: Of the concept of relinquishing ownership in physical "special event" marketplaces.
• Berserk Button: Anyone who messes with sales, as she attacks the protagonists because she perceives them as "robbers" for not partaking in financial transactions with her.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: Shares the status of main villainess with Megumu, as they worked together to spread the Ability Cards around Gensokyo.
• Curtains Match the Window: Has blue hair and eyes.
• Final Boss: She's the final hurdle in Unconnected Marketeers and 100th Black Market.
• Flechette Storm: Her "Asylum of Danmaku" spell card has her use knives with multicolored hilts alongside bullets, as well as bullets that transform into knives.
• Gods Need Prayer Badly: As she needs markets because they're the only place where ownership of something can be completely relinquished, physical marketplaces becoming more and more a thing of the past left her in danger of disappearing before she teamed up with Megumu.
• Greater-Scope Villain: While she doesn't appear in Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost, the plot of the game is the direct result of the aftermath of her markets.
• Inconsistent Spelling: Chimata Tenkyu in K-S Romanization.
• Insistent Terminology: Insists on calling all transactions "a market" because that's how she gains power. Market in her case refers to any physical place of revelry where people give up ownership of things, so online markets don't count.
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Where is that Bustling Marketplace ~ Immemorial Marketeers".
• Loophole Abuse: Chimata can only open her market when there's a lunar rainbow, or a similarly dramatic event such as a meteor impact or volcanic eruption, so she normally can't have them inside a building. The denizens of the Scarlet Devil Mansion get around this in Sakuya's alternate ending by having the interior of the mansion painted with rainbows to summon her, as Remilia's own issues with rain and light being deadly to vampires prevent her from attending Chimata's normal markets.
• Meaningful Name: Her surname Tenkyuu uses the characters for "heaven" and "bow"^note As in "bow and arrow", and is written the same way as a Chinese word meaning "rainbow", while her given name Chimata can be written with the character "巷", which can mean "the public" or "crossroads", referring to her status as a god of marketplaces.
• Pimped-Out Cape: Wears a cape whose inside shows a blue sky.
• Rainbow Motif: She wears a dress patched together with cloth colored all the colors of the rainbow, wears a rainbow-colored hairband, and her surname can be written with the Chinese characters for "rainbow". She's also closely associated with lunar rainbows, as it's only then that she can personally partake in selling Ability Cards.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Does this twice in her fight. Her first spellcard is a semi-survival spellcard where she just... leaves the battlefield and comes back halfway through. Then later, for her real survival spell, she can occasionally be seen circling around you from offscreen; indicating she's not so much gone invulnerable as she has just run out of your range.
• Secret Shop: Her "Lunar Rainbow Market" only appears if there's a lunar rainbow or other similarly dramatic event such as a meteor impact or volcanic eruption. In Chapter 37 of Lotus Eaters, she uses the odd red snow as an excuse to create a market at the Hakurei Shrine.
• Small Name, Big Ego: While a weakened god of little note, in her battle intro she goes so far as to say humans are only alive because of her abilities.
• Weaksauce Weakness: While most Touhou gods are subject to Gods Need Prayer Badly, Chimata's Berserk Button and Insistent Terminology seem to justified in light of the fact she's incredibly vulnerable to someone choosing to ignore her market regulations, even by accident. In Marisa's Secret Ending, she accidentally renders Chimata bedridden by purchasing a card that forced her to dispose of all other ability cards. Chimata is apparently hit so bad she suffers from repeated nightmares of a "robber" thereafter.
• Zipperiffic: Her dress is covered in large zippers.

Momoyo Himemushi

Onyx Dragon-Eater

Momoyo Himemushi

"Tremble in joy! The mountain shall be your grave!"

An oomukade who happens to be an old friend of Megumu's, and the youkai working inside the Rainbow Dragon Cave to mine dragon gems.

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• Always a Bigger Fish: Possibly the most extreme example in the series so far (barring Hecatia), since oomukade are shown in myths to eat dragons, which the series have previously shown as being some of the most powerful beings in Gensokyo and almost on the level of deities.
• Animal Motif: As to be expected, centipedes. She wears ribbons around her legs and chain links on her dress that evoke a centipede's segments, while the hair horn on her right side combined with her pickaxe evokes a centipede's jaws.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Since she's a oomukade, her true form is a massive centipede.

• Blood Knight: Enjoys combat, treating her battle with the protagonists like it's a game.
• Creepy Centipedes: She's an oomukade, a giant centipede youkai so dangerous they're known to eat dragons, and she's a generally unpleasant individual.
• Curtains Match the Window: Grey hair and eyes.
• Dumb Muscle: Is one of the most powerful youkai in Gensokyo, but doesn't seem too bright. For starters, she thinks maids are a species when confronted with Sakuya in her Extra scenario.
• The Dreaded: Oomukade are considered one of the most dangerous youkai for their grotesque forms and deadly toxins, with even dragons being unwilling to mess with them. Oddly, despite this, she's shown to be quite popular among the stronger youkai of Gensokyo in 100th Black Market, where she's implied to have invited a few over to her cave for drinks.
• Earthy Barefoot Character: She's constantly barefoot to represent her connection to the earth through both having an Animal Motif relating to the earth-burrowing centipedes and working in a cave to dig up gems.
• Eat Dirt, Cheap: In return for mining Dragon Gems for Megumu, she gets to eat some of the Dragon Gems she digs up.
• Extreme Omnivore: Known to eat rocks, is able to eat dragons, and threatens to eat the player character if they lose to her. It's hard to say what she can't - or won't - eat.
• A Form You Are Comfortable With: While most youkai in Touhou are only implied to have more monstrous forms, in Momoyo's case it's explicitly stated that her humanoid form is there for convenience's sake, and her true form is a giant centipede.
• Flight, Strength, Heart: She's one of those youkai you might not necessarily recognize as being at the top of the Gensokyan food chain going off her signature ability alone. But she is an oomukade, one of the absolute biggest and nastiest youkai, meaning that her true form probably eclipses some landmarks in size, and she has raw strength and magical power to match. Even being around her can be lethal due to all the poison that radiates from her, and that's before she even actually tries to kill you. Her "ability to eat dragons" is more of a warning label than a power, since it implies she would be able to defeat what is essentially a divine entity.
• God-Eating: Downplayed, but if it's true that she eats dragons, then she's predating on what are essentially beings who are almost deities themselves and are often treated as such in this setting.
• Informed Ability: Since her reputation as an oomukade predates her, no one is sure if she can actually eat a dragon since most people are too afraid to be around her. She can at the very least eat dragon gems.
• Insect Queen: Her surname translates into "insect princess", and ZUN describes her as princess of the centipedes in the music notes for "Dragon-King-Slaying Princess".
• Leitmotif: Her theme is "Dragon-King-Slaying Princess".
• Mundane Utility: No matter how you slice it, in the end she's basically a gigantic monstrous centipede who was hired to be the foreman of a mine for precious stones.
• Pest Controller: While she does not explicitly have this power like her fellow bug youkai Wriggle, her patterns tend to contain long, multi-segmented strings of bullets evoking centipedes. Her survival spellcard is also evocative of a swarm of bugs converging on the player character.
• Poisonous Person: Emits poisonous gases so bad that the protagonists need to get a special item first in order to brave the Rainbow Dragon Cave in the Extra stage without immediately succumbing to her poison. 100th Black Market demonstrates another work-around, with Suika filling the cave with breathable air to make it livable.
• Stuff Blowing Up: Creates powerful explosions in her spells Mining "Mine Blast" and Mining "Shield Method of the Youkai".
• Superboss: She's the last boss you fight in Unconnected Marketeers after Chimata is defeated, being in charge of mining the dragon gems and therefore being the linchpin of Megumu's operation.
• To Serve Man: Plans on eating the protagonists if they lose.
• Tomboy Princess: If the "hime" in her name and the title of her boss theme is to be taken literally, at least. She refers to herself by the masculine pronoun ore, has a rough personality, and works in mining, a typically male-dominated field.
• Tunnel King: In charge of mining in the Rainbow Dragon Cave, carries digging implements with her, and several of her spell cards refer to mining as well. This makes sense as centipedes in real life tend to be excellent burrowers.
• Worthy Opponent: After being defeated, she has nothing but respect for the protagonists, and allows them to take some of the Dragon Gems if they came to steal them. In fact, she's so excited by the fight that she wants a rematch immediately afterwards.

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